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How to determinate version of glibc library under Ubuntu Linux

Mon, 12/28/2009 - 16:10 — mareshkau
    To determinate glibc version you can by following steps:
  • #1 at any distributive you can cal library as a programm
    /lib/libc.so.6

    Result:
    GNU C Library (EGLIBC) stable release version 2.10.1, by Roland McGrath et al.
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled by GNU CC version 4.4.1.
Compiled on a Linux >>2.6.24-23-server<< system on 2009-10-07.
Available extensions:
	crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
	GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson
	Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al
	BIND-8.2.3-T5B
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.eglibc.org/issues/>.
  • #2 under debian based linux you can execute following command
    sudo aptitude show libc6

    Result:
    Package: libc6
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.10.1-0ubuntu15
Priority: required
Section: libs
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 9,556k
Depends: libc-bin (= 2.10.1-0ubuntu15), libgcc1, tzdata, findutils (>= 4.4.0-2ubuntu2)
Recommends: libc6-i686
Suggests: glibc-doc, debconf | debconf-2.0, locales
Conflicts: belocs-locales-bin, tzdata (< 2007k-1), tzdata-etch
Breaks: nscd (< 2.9)
Replaces: belocs-locales-bin
Provides: glibc-2.10-1
Description: GNU C Library: Shared libraries
 Contains the standard libraries that are used by nearly all programs on the system. This package includes shared versions of the standard C library and the standard math
 library, as well as many others.